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King, Laurie R.

Summary: August 1923. All is quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex as Mary Russell works on academic research while Sherlock Holmes conducts malodorous chemistry experiments. But the peace quickly disappears as out of the past comes Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archeologist from the Holy Land, who brings the couple a lovely inlaid box with a tattered roll of stained papyrus inside. The evening following...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997

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Atherton, Nancy.

Summary: Lori thought Aunt Dimity was just a character in a family bedtime story until a law firm summoned her to a reading of her relative's last will and testament. Lori will inherit a sizable estate--if she can discover the secret hidden in a treasure trove of letters tucked away at Dimity's English country cottage.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1993

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Atherton, Nancy

Summary: "Nancy Atherton's twenty-second cozy mystery in the beloved, nationally bestselling Aunt Dimity series. It's early April in the small English village of Finch. Lori Shepherd's husband and sons are spending Easter break camping, and Lori is perfectly happy to be left at home with Bess, spared a week of roughing it with a curious toddler. The two attend a village events committee meeting and Lori...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017

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Cleeves, Ann

Summary: "On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020

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Cleeves, Ann

Summary: For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022

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Cleeves, Ann

Summary: "Fifty years ago, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island. Now, they still return every five years to celebrate their friendship and remember the friend they lost to the rising waters of the causeway. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2022

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Cannell, Dorothy.

Summary: A comic mystery featuring sleuth Ellie Haskell as she investigates an urn containing the ashes of her father's lady love. A lot of people seem overly interested in the urn, could it contain something else than ashes?

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999

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Crane, Hamilton.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 1994

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Holt, Hazel

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006

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Holt, Hazel

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001

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Brett, Simon.

Summary: While waitressing at the Hopwicke Country House Hotel as a favor for a friend, Jude becomes involved in murder when a member of the Pillars of Sussex, a group of local businessmen, is found dead and Jude suspects foul play.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2004

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Kingsbury, Kate.

Summary: This season, Cecily has a surprise for her guests: gorgeous Christmas crackers handmade for the Pennyfoot. But when a mysterious fire breaks out in an upstairs room, it kills the Christmas mood-and two guests. Now Cecily's dead-set on solving this mystery before another deadly present turns up.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009

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Brett, Simon.

Summary: Going to Connie's Clip Joint for a haircut, Carole Seddon doesn't expect to find herself at the scene of a murder, but in the back room, strangled by the cord of a hairdryer, sits Connie's young assistant Kyra.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007

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Brett, Simon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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Brett, Simon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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Dams, Jeanne M.

Summary: When her son is accused of theft, a charwoman turns for help to Dorothy Martin, the American wife of the constable of Sherebury. No sooner does Dorothy clear his name, than he is arrested again, this time for the murder of a housekeeper.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1998

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Brett, Simon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike 2003

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Brett, Simon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2002

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Brett, Simon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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Brett, Simon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2007

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Brett, Simon.

Summary: A murder provides series heroine Carole Seddon a welcome distraction from Christmas. A few days after Carole and best friend Jude do some shopping at Gallimaufry, the store burns down. In the ruins firemen discover a woman's charred body. The police later learn that a single bullet, not fire, killed the victim, Polly Le Bonnier, the attractive stepdaughter of Gallimaufry's owner.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2010

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Atherton, Nancy.

Summary: Lori Shepherd's debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovating Fairworth House, a grand estate nearby. But once things get truly peculiar at Fairworth--moving furniture, strange sounds, and mysterious visitors--Lori calls on Aunt Dimity for her otherworldly guidance.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011

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Cannell, Dorothy.

Summary: Ellie Haskell has had her ups and downs with housekeeper Mrs. Malloy, but she can't help missing her when the corpulent, caustic cleaning lady starts moonlighting in a private detective's office--nosing into his files as she dusts them. So Ellie is quite pleased when Mrs. M summons her to Detective Jugg's office one evening for a woman-to-woman chat. Then one of Jugg's clients, Lady Krumley,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002

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King, Laurie R.

Summary: In 1914, a young woman named Mary Russell meets a retired beekeeper on the Sussex Downs. His name is Sherlock Holmes. And although he may have all the Victorian "flaws" listed above, the Great Detective is no fool, and can spot a fellow intellect even in a fifteen-year-old woman. So, at first informally, then consciously, he takes Mary as his apprentice. They work on a few small local cases,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books, . 1994

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